Introduction The World Cup Is No Longer Just Football. It's a Live, Global Software System, something that should inspire businesses and developers to build better applications. In 2026, football won't pause for human doubt; it will wait for algorithms. When the referee at the World Cup 2026 checks VAR, an invisible army of AI models, real-time data pipelines, computer vision systems, and decision engines will already have an answer queued; something which would have been pro